The Idiot Boy
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"The Idiot Boy" is a poem written by William Wordsworth, a representative of the Romantic movement in English literature. The poem was composed in spring 1798 and first published in the same year in L
Title page of the first edition of Lyrical Ballads
Wordsworth on Helvellyn by Benjamin Robert Haydon
Idiot
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An idiot, in modern use, is a stupid or foolish person. Idiot was formerly a technical term in legal and psychiatric contexts for some kinds of profound intellectual disability where the mental age is
The Idiot Boy
…psychologic deliberations, and it has been connected with "an emergent 'humane' understanding of cognitive difference." The poem's usage of the term "idiot" has been said to carry "connotations of deficiency," and the word itself has been counted amongst those used "to provoke revulsion or to ostracize…
The Idiot by Evert Larock (1892)